GREEDSBORING, NC (where I "stay-at") Last week when I saw the headline about several International students being bumrushed by a bunch of football jocks at this college in Greensboro, I almost, sort of, smirked.
I thought, what's new in life? This is a college which professes Noble, liberalism & boundless tolerance on it's face but harbors a hidden culture of institutional, narrow mindedness & xenophobia which it ,like the surrounding city, stubbornly clings to and jealously, preserves!
I know this because some years ago when I was attending GTCC a Korean friend of mine who was also a former foreign student and my math tutor. Told me about how he, then a student at High Point College, was compelled to travel to Guilford in order to aid several of his Korean compatriot friends & Guilford students who were being harassed and bullied in their dorm by their American-jock dorm mates.
This friend of mine was not your stereotypical wispy, Asian, geek but rather a tall, hulking, powerfully built young man(father was a Korean Army bigwig) with a stony face & a flattop crewcut who knew how to brawl - Korean Style! According to him after some time of struggle & combat, the koreans won & came out on top in the uninvited "match", in the process, one or more of the instigators may have been sent to the hospital, I think he said.
For their impudence in not properly kowtowing to their American tormentors, The Guilford College student court (or senate which ever), ruled, conveniently AGAINST the International students "for fighting" and either dismissed them from the school or banned my big, buddy from visiting the Guilford college campus in the future. As for the "Good 'ole boys" who started the trouble and got their asses kicked, nothing was done and no sanctions were imposed! After-all "THEY" the Koreans were just a bunch of "foreigners" & "slants" who didn't "fit-in" in this "All-American" City, anyway Righhht?
So maybe the REAL SOLUTION AT GUILFORD is that International Male students need to learn Gong-Fu and "Pack" BEFORE they enroll & live with typical, ignorent Americans.
Obviously, for it's part "GUILFORD" STILL NEEDS TO RE-EDUCATE IT'S ATHLETICS, CAMPUS SECURITY AND PHYSICAL PLANT DEPARTMENTS in accepting diversity!!!
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